Man in Penn State video says he was bystander, not rioter

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — One of 12 students arrested and charged with rioting at a Penn State satellite campus apartment building claimed to be a bystander only on a video taken by a friend.

The (Altoona) Mirror (http://bit.ly/14RmKGt ) reports the video shows a Logan Township officer choking and struggling with 19-year-old Kevin Nelson, who was on his apartment porch playing a guitar but not involved in Saturday's disturbance at the Nittany Pointe apartment building. Police declared the party — in which several hundred people were drinking and dancing outside — a riot after liquor bottles were thrown as a police car.

Chief Ron Heller says police can order people not directly involved in the disturbance to go inside in such an instance — and that Nelson was arrested for not doing so.